government will shut down. the debate overall continues online at cnn.com/crosscnn.com/. we're's also on facebook and twitter. >> join us tomorrow. erin ber net starts right now. moments away from the vote that could shut down the government. plus the americans say they've thwarted the biggest attack since 9/11. and finally, we're starting to get answers about last night's deadly plane crash in santa monica. one woman said she saw it coming. how? let's go out front.

and good evening, earn. out front tonight, we begin with the breaking news. this hour the house of representatives will take a vote that could shut down the u.s. government. right now moderates are staging a revolt. it's a last ditch effort to save the government, but what happens if that fails? less than five hours from now, the u.s. government could officially shut down. it would be the first time since 1995. dana bash is on capitol hill. moderate republicans staging a revolt. what exactly are they trying to do? >> reporter: well, in the next series of votes that we're going to see on the house floor, what moderate republicans are hoping to do is to stop procedurally republicans from going ahead with this plan that they have to fund the government but yet with another few ideas to chip away at obamacare that senate

democrats say they'll reject, like delaying the individual mandate for a year and taking away subsidies for those in the government. what they're hoping to do is get enough republicans to defeat this procedurally. in terms of raw numbers, we're talking about maybe 17 republicans would have to agree to vote no. and that could make this whole republican plan crumble. i talked to peter king of new york who is one of the people who is trying to get the votes to wage this revolt. and here's how he explained. >> he's doing this. basically what you and some of your colleagues are saying is enough already. >> this was a doomed process from the start. i was told this was a way to get the process going. it's obvious there is no end in sight. this is going to go on. we have people in the conference

i believe who are just as happy to have the government shut down. they live in these narrow eco chambers and they listen to their tea party friends, forgetting that the rest of the country thinks that we're crazy. >> reporter: the goal of these moderate republicans is that they want to do what senate democrats have been begging them to do, is to pass a bill with no strings attached. one little piece of color, peter king is on the house floor right now. and our deirdre walsh is in the gallery. saw the speaker walk over to him and talk to him about this move that they're making. so they're hoping that this revolt isn't successful. >> ironic. the revolt as you're calling it seems to be what john boehner himself supported a few months ago. i know they're getting ready to vote. first of all, just to make sure

it's clear to everybody. just funding the government in full with no strings attached for another six weeks doesn't do anything but put this off for another six weeks but if this is successful, would it mean no shut down tonight at midnight? >> reporter: no, it would just mean that the republican leaders are back to square one. that the hope of people like peter king and charlie dent of pennsylvania is that this would make it impossible for republicans to pass anything except a bill to fund the government with nothing attached, but they would have to do it with almost the entire democratic caucus supporting it. it would have to be a true bipartisan vote. but we would really be back to square one and they would have to scramble to figure out how to deal with this. even though 17 republicans out of 233 doesn't sound like a lot, they are having a lot of trouble

getting enough people to vote no and make a stand as peter king said to me, enough already. we're ready to move on and stop this march toward the government shut down. >> we're going to get back to dana in a second as we get the results of that vote. and of course there's another vote later this hour, which is a crucial vote from the house of representatives. of course the president spoke today, has refused to negotiate so far with republicans. that's our second story here. and i want to bring in jim la costa on that. you've heard dana talk an a little bit about their republican revolt. i don't want to overplay, but their is significant. what's the view from the white house? >> reporter: well, we'll have to see. one thing we are seeing, i can report to you that president obama is starting to reach out to congressional leaders. just got their confirmed in the last few seconds according to a white house official the president placed separate phone calls to harry reid, mitch

mcconnell, john boehner and nancy pelosi. so the president is starting to engage with congress members. perhaps it's a now wait and see kind of situation to be continued. but, you know, erin, just to give you a sense of how really locked in this white house is to its position right now that it's not going to look at anything that delays or defunds obamacare, the president met with his cabinet, said they need to start preparing for a government shutdown, start looking at things they can do to prepare for a government shutdown, and you heard the president earlier this afternoon say that obamacare is here to stay. but outside of this government shut down and outside of this debt default, he started to place the blame squarely on the

shoulders of republican for people being hurt. he talked about women, children, veterans, senior citizens. and listen to what the president told npr earlier this evening about the prospect of a government shut down. i'm going to read it to you. he said to npr, i shouldn't have to offer anything. he said what are you offering? the president said i shouldn't have to offer anything. they're not doing me a favor by paying for things that they've already approved for the government to do. that's not doing me a favor. that sounds like if the government shuts down, the president's not moving. we doing here a while. >> dana had to step away from the camera because we are waiting for that vote. but let me ask you, because you just had that breaking news. and this is significant, right? the president had an opportunity to meet with leadership and chose not to. the fact that he's just made

these phone calls that you reported on to john boehner, nancy pelosi, mitch mcconnellre that is prejudging? >> reporter: i don't know. you have to be optimistic in washington or you'll get too depressed. the redskins won yesterday. what can i say? they're not 0-4. the house speaker has not spoken to the president for more than a week. they're not telling the press about things. and it could bear some fruit later on. there was talk earlier today about a short term one week resolution that could keep the government open. harry reid basically said no way, that's not going to happen. but when we asked jay carney about theis earlier today, he dd not knock this down. is that something that yas once

dead and now back? we don't know. it is an indication that the president is starting to engage with congressional leaders, something he wasn't ready to do. in the view of this white house, this is something up to congress to solve. he cannot pass legislation. he can only sign it. >> we will be getting back to jim and dana as this vote happens. and then later this hour the other crucial vote on the house for the senate bill. at this time i want to bring in our reporter on the markets. people have thrown around different words, about cataclysm. you see significant drops. but what's the real impact? and jim is request me now of bianco research. despite today's slide, you've

got to take a bigger picture here, fund it for six weeks, fund it for one week. we're going to be back at ground zero very quickly. and the markets have gotten used to that. you look at the year, markets up 15 to 25%. a huge jump. will that change? >> i don't think it will change. i think the markets have been through this before, most recently during the fiscal cliff and the sequester. they know how this goes down. washington all of a sudden throws a deal together and they rally. if you look at what's happened in other markets, the gold market or the u.s. dollar, it was a quiet day, not much going on in any of those markets. >> which is fascinating. in a way they have become immune, but when you get used to it coming to the umpteenth hour and getting solved, you get complacent. i don't know if you heard today

the president talking about why their is, this is such a big deal. how long until you think the shutdown would hurt this country? thinking about the last time this happened in 1995. it was what, 17, 21 days. >> yeah, you know, first of all, as far as government shut downs go, we have those regularly. it's called snowstorms in wh washington in january. once you get into the end of next week then you begin to start talking about damage to the economy. but if they cut a deal later this week or even towards friday, i think that the all in effect on the economy is negligentable. that's what the markets are trying to tell us. yes, the markets were down 100 points today, but they've done that. get us to next week without a

shut down or with a continued shut down. and then we might have a story to talk about damage to the economy. >> right. obviously every day it becomes more cumulative. jim bianco, thank you. important the perspective to let you know why the next few days might be okay. but don't get lulled into complacency. the vote, the republicans revolting against other republicans. our dana bash watching that. we also have the other breaking news vote this hour. all these votes happening in the next 45 minutes. plus last month, americans thwarted the single biggest terrorist attack since 9/11. why are they scrambling. and we have new information from last night's deadly plane crash. one woman said she saw it coming can. and a the suv driver took on

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we are back with breaking news. you are of course looking at the house floor, and we can report that the revolt vote that we were just saying had suddenly happened at the top of the hour, driven by the likes of king, that vote has just failed with some republicans trying to stage a showdown against members of

their own party because they think a shut down will end up hurting the republican party. dana bash is back. that vote looks like it failed. >> reporter: that's right. and what this means in practical terms is that this country, this government is headed for a shut down at midnight. what this was was sort of a last ditch effort by some republicans that enough is enough. that they've voted to defund obamacare, and they've failed. but i told you it seemed like a lot. they only needed 1 republicans to agree with them. they only got six. the rest did vote with their party on the plan that just passed procedurally that we're going to see the actual vote on soon, and at that land would be to fund the government but to dough lay the individual mandate

of obamacare for a year and something that hits everybody here close to home, take away subsidies for health care premiums for members and their staff. that is basically what is going to roll forward right now. it looks like a train that's not going to stop. the house is going to have a couple more votes to formalize that. and it's going to go back over to the senate. and as we have heard from the senate democratic leader and others they feel confident that they have the vote does reject that. and then we're in limbo. we're going to be very close to the clock striking midnight. and my republican sources who i've talked to say they simply don't at this point see the house relenting, at least not tonight to finally, even after all those machinations agree to pass the bill funding the government with nothing at all derailing obamacare a little bit

on it. >> all right, dana bash, thank you very much, explaining the significance of that vote. peter king had led that revolt against the republicans to try to fund the government. it failed. pretty incredible when you look at those numbers, that they only needed 17 republican votes in the house to get that vote to succeed and they only got six. we have the other vote which we are counting down to. the other vote could be what puts the nail in the coffin of a shut down. that's going to be coming up in a few minutes. in the meantime, a major al qaeda development. al qaeda gone quiet. when u.s. intelligence intercepted messages last month between al qaeda's leader and the head of yemen's al qaeda, it was seen as a major break. officials said they stopped the biggest single plot since 9/11 against american interests.

now there are major the consequences as al qaeda is leaving u.s. intelligence scrambling. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence officials are still dealing with the fall out over a terrorist plot and how it was unveiled. >> anybody who's looking at these stories knows that the particular method they were using to communicate has been compromised. >> reporter: the shut down of consulates last month because of an eminent the terror attack. news reports reveal the source. an intercepted communication between two of al qaeda's top leaders. >> there was some ability for them to reach out to al qaeda in yemen and have some meaningful discussion. >> reporter: al qaeda's conference call wasn't done over the phone. they used a secure internet messaging system, with various

encrypted accounts. couriers likely uploaded miss ands to these accounts. but since the very public revelation that the u.s. was able to intercept those message, intelligence officials have seen a drop in how much al qaeda uses the system. a u.s. official says it's a problem anytime you call attention to a specific channel. we have to chase these guy when is they go to different channels, and our hope is they don't go to others that are inaccessible to us. >> they know there's a breach somewhere. they've got to find it. they've got to close it down. >> reporter: cyber expert jim lewis says it's not easy for the u.s. to access these sit tystemt can take a combination of agents and hacking. >> it can take month does rebuild that level of access.

>> did this leak do as much damage as the revelations of edward snowden? >> reporter: i just talked to an official who said if there in is, it's apples and oranges. snowden caused long-term damage. this one he says was a moment in time. sometimes al qaeda gets spooked. they go away from a channel. then they come back to it. sometimes things happen in the world that force them back to channels that the u.s. has bert access to. they probably won't know for six months whether al qaeda has truly lost complete confidence in that channel. noer in other words, it's a little too soon to make that call. out front next, more of our continuing news on the government shut down. after a crucial republican revolt vote just failed, more likely than ever. another vote coming up in about

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this is an airport used by many celebrities. and that jet took off from a resort community in idaho near tucson valley and home of many celebrities. >> reporter: no emergency call, no distress alert as a fixed wing multi engine cessna touched down at the santa monica airport. >> it looks like he veered off the right side of the runway. and as the veer, as he continued down the turn got sharper and sharper. >> reporter: straight into the path of this hangar where debris litters the runway, still images caught show the hot fire that melted the building's frame. cranes will lift the roof so investigators can get to the fuselage. the plane belonged to the president of morley builders, a

multimillion company. he is believed to have been on the plane with his son. they left from idaho last night. >> smoke ball, gigantic in the air. >> reporter: the airport sits near a residential neighborhood, homes including vickie's. >> we are a couple 00 yards away from where the plane crashed last night. >> reporter: according to the ntsb, there have been more than 30 incidents related to the airport. >> people worry that something really bad is going to happen. it's inevitable. >> reporter: you are looking at a live image of the hangar itself. those cranes have been brought in by the ntsb. what they're going to do is

start to lift up the hangar itself. they need to shore up the structure in order to get to the fuselage. the good news is they believe there's a cockpit voice recorder aboard that plane. >> thank you very much. as we said, reporting from santa monica. and we continue the count down to the shut down. one congressman will be out front to explain his vote. plus, how veterans could be the big losers in a shut down. and a dramatic confrontation caught on tape, a showdown between a suv on a group of motorcyclists turns violent. we're going to show you the entire video so you can judge for yourself. that's why we build tools like our career guidance system. it's kind of like gps, you know, for your career. it walks you through different degree possibilities and

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drew 12 million. will amc shares break bad on your wallet? sorry. i couldn't resist. speaking of breaking bad, the breaking news tonight is pretty bad. just moments away from a crucial vote to defund the government. it is a bad situation, no matter which side of this you are on. this vote would also include a provision that would redwier lawmakers and their staff to get insurance through obamacare without government subsidies. after this happen, this crucial vote which could happen at any moment, it is dead on arrival when it hits the senate. out front, jason cha fitz is about to vote. your vote here is pretty clear. but go ahead and explain to me if you could, you're going to vote on a bill that you know will not go through the senate.

you know the repercussion of your vote is a government shut down. you're comfortable with that, how comfortable are you? >> we are voting to keep government open. it is the third time we've voted to keep government open. this one has to do with making sure members of congress don't get some special treatment. ant second part of it is to delay the individual mandate. the president has numerous times and delayed individual parts of obamacare. why not what they did for business do for the individual mandates for a year? that seems like a reasonable thing to do and keep the government open. >> i hear you on congress men get special treatment. but again, it comes back to what's realistic, right? what you know can pass. and i guess, the way i want to put the question to you is this way. i understand you feel passionately about this issue, but what don't you say here's a bunch of cutting i can put out

there, but their country needs to deal with. we've got to pay the piper sometime and put those cuts out there, instead of putting out the straw horse of obamacare. i know you quit the moral victory of going against it, but you know politically your view cannot pass. why go for those other spending cuts? >> i know the president and democrats like to say they're repercussions for an election. let's go back to the 2010 election. that was right after obamacare passed. when nancy pelosi said we have to fas to find out what's in it. in 2011 we had sweeping changes in the house of representatives. some say let's go for majority rule. three time, i'm anticipating that this bill will pass when we vote on it in the next hour, that three times the house will affirmatively pass a provision that keeps government open and makes some small adjustments. i think a small adjustment in delaying the individual mandate which they've already done for

businesses, let's do it for individuals as well and make sure members of congress don't get some special exemption, that is not a heavy lift. >> you're talking about special treatment. are you willing to give up your pay in solidarity for those who are going to be forced to work without pay if there's a shut down? >> according to the 27th amendment of the constitution we can't adjust any pay of members. what i'm voting for is getting rid of that special exception that the congress, their staff, the white house, get rid of that and have to deal with health care the way every american's going to have to deal with. they're saying no, no, no. that members of congress should get special treatment. i don't know how you vote for that in good conscience. >> the president spoke to npr today. i have a little clip of that. steve asked the president about

ongoing conversations with house leaders. and a few moments ago we reported the president did pick up the phone and call john boehner and mitch mcconnell and what those leaders could offer him. here's what the president said, pretty interesting take and i wanted to play it for you. >> i shouldn't have to offer anything. they're not doing me a favor by paying for things that they have already approved for the government to do. that's part of their basic fungs. you know, it's like whether my boss tells me you can't do this. and i don't like it, but i can't go every day to him and try to relitigate it. at some point i have to say, shucks, i'm stuck. i've got to do what the ruling is. isn't that the situation you're now in? you already approved this obamacare. >> well, i would point to the

congressional budget office that has literally hundreds of programs worth billions of dollars that have been approved that don't get funded. that's why we go through these resolutions and funding process. the second thick is, it will be interesting if the president takes that same position on the debt ceiling, because the debt ceiling is the law of the land. yet the president wants us to go back and rework all that because it's not tenable to what he wants to do. you can't have it both ways. the reason why we go through the appropriations process is because we have to figure out where the priorities are and where they aren't. we can't fund everything that's been approved. that's the reality of how we operate the government. >> shouldn't you not have approved it in the first place? the world expects us to make good on those promises. that's what makes us america. >> that's why we're voting in favor of keeping every bit of government open, and the only adjustment that we're offering

here is to delay the individual mandate for one year and make sure that congress gets no special, has no special rules. that's not a lot that we're asking for, and i think the democrats, i don't understand the argument on why they would shut down the entire government and have all this chaos because they wanted to make sure that congress continued to have some sort of special exemption on obamacare. that makes no sense. >> thank you. i appreciate you taking time out of a busy night. that vote coming any minute. meantime the military effect of a government shut down. some things would not be affected, krug medicare and social security, all quote-unquote essential people. but when it comes to the military, can including veterans, they're told they're going to get paid in ious and that is a significant headline. our barbara starr investigated tonight.

>> reporter: for 3.3 million disabled veterans, the budget mess in washington is about to affect them in a big way. >> veterans who have sacrificed for their country will find their support centers unstaffed. >> reporter: if the government shuts down and stretched into late october, the department of veterans affair also run out of money and that means disability and pension checks could stop for elderly and ill veterans. advocates are outraged. >> that's what they need to pay rent, to buy food. it's not their total income, but it is a significant part of it. and taking that out of the mix because the government can't get their act together is really dangerous for those who need it the most. >> reporter: disability payments can reach $3,000 a month. for the war wounded, it can be a financial lifeline. tom is an iraq war veteran. >> any politician need to the understand that if you are holding veterans hostage for the

sake of political gain or if you're trying to balance the budget on the backs of the men and women who have zachary fiezed for this country, you are going to pay a political price. >> reporter: for america's 1.4 million troops still on duty, the prospect has brought worry about delayed paychecks, even though congress has made sure men and women in uniform inclusion those in afghanistan are paid on time, but a navy wife says there's plenty of anxiety about what may happen. >> short term, we know that commissaries where we do a lot of our shopping will be shut down. and for those of us who get our health care or our children's health care at military facilities, it's possible that's going to be affected as well. routine appointments are not going to be available. >> reporter: still defense personnel will be furloughed until congress and the white house reach an agreement. for out front, barbara starr,

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and breaking news right now, the house of representatives moments away from a crucial vote. this is the vote. the big vote, the one that will shut down the american government. dana bash, john king, and john avalon are out front, so dana, where do you think it stands right now outside the capital. this is the vote that would do it. >> exactly, so they're having the final debate on that vote. and what is going to be interesting to see is if in fact the house republicans have the vote. it looks like they do, based on sort of the procedural vote that we just saw in which the so-called moderates, and the

very few of them who are left were not successful in derailing this whole process. the open question is whether or not frankly there are some conservatives, or those on the other side of the republican caucus who vote no because this doesn't go far enough in what they want to do. so this is the two wings of the party that john boehner is dealing with. but big picture, assuming this goes planned with the republican house leadership, yes, this gets kicked back to the senate and they have promised to reject it immediately. and we are back at square one, back in limbo. and again, i think this is important to underscore. i have not talked to any senior republican sources who think it makes sense procedurely or any other way, to de-fund the bill, by midnight, which means we'll see a government shutdown if all of that goes as expected to. >> so john king, what do the american people want here?

you know, this is an interesting issue, they don't want the government shut down, and by most polls don't like obama care, so what do you think? >> they think it would be a big mistake to shut down the government. usually in our politics we have a roughly divided country on so many of those issues, look at the bad thing, 68%, seven in ten americans say a bad thing to shut it down for a few days. the number jumps if you say to a few weeks. so dana's point, the competing factions, the interesting politics polled, look at this among the tea party supporters, 56% of them say it would be a good thing to shut down the government for a few days, 28% opposed. if you shut down the government, you see the numbers, john boehner's supporters, they have support among the tea party members. but the defining point is this, are you willing to shut down the government, block, delay, do

something significant to stall the president's health care law? and on that one, people say no, 60% say do not shut down the government if the price is just to block obama care. two to one, but the house, republicans anyway, not listening to that number. >> all right, john avalon, it is because their districts essentially want them to do it. so what the individual voters want may not jibe with what the rest of the country wants. >> that is right, it creates these safe districts only worried about offending their base, looking over their right shoulder, afraid of offending their group. and there will be hell to pay, there is this attempted revolt of the moderates tonight that did not succeed. but there is no plan out of this. this game of hot potato is going to continue tonight, and then

watch out when people start to make their feelings felt, because even on the hill, they will feel it. >> tomorrow, a lot of things that people may expect from government shutdown are not going to happen, right? medicare will continue to function, social security, the mail, military, all of those things, so people are not necessarily going to feel anything tomorrow. what happens when the government shuts down tonight? i mean, how quickly could it reopen? i mean, i don't understand the logistics from here. >> reporter: i am sorry, i think i missed the beginning of what you were saying, there were some technical difficulties. but the logistics, what happens from here is really unclear, i believe that was what your question is? >> yes. >> reporter: but when it comes to the government, you know, we do know that already today, erin, people here in the capitol hill and elsewhere in the federal government got their furlough notices if they're considered nonessential. we do know that all of the buildings that are national

parks, museums, things like that, those will be closed. so you're actually going to visually see the effects of the government shutdown. one thing here that people are really interested in seeing is how the markets react. because some people believe they wouldn't react that negatively because it is just a bunch of bureaucrats, so they may react more negatively if it was just a shutdown in a vacuum. >> which is just the point, john avalon. >> we're looking at basically a two-day window, and it gets serious. in some ways, the shutdown would create pain for people, and this is not going to be one of the shutdowns that gets papered over we' real quick. we have real issues, real differences and this would be a fundamental problem going forward. this is a symbol for all of the

function of our democracy, and folks will be furious. >> all right, thank you, very much, john king there, his mike was open, with a sigh, your check is not in the mail. all right, we'll continue with the threat of the government shutdown and the vote. we'll be right back. hey, we got our cards, honey!

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special edition of "out front." we're going to be live tonight with a special edition, at 11:00 p.m., we'll be out front, grover norquist, john avalon, they will with me. meanwhile, our coverage continues with wolf blitzer. erin thank you, as the shutdown gets closer, hard line republicans once again pushing legislation, voting on it just moments from now that funds the government but delays implementation of health care reform. a bill the senate won't pass and the president won't sign. at the same time, moderate republicans, many of whom also oppose the health care law staging a party rebellion against tactics they see as bad policy and worse politics. but right now, those voices are not, at